Fabrice DeClerck

Fabrice DeClerck joined Bioversity in January 2012 to lead a program on agrobiodiversity and ecosystem services. He is a landscape and community ecologist whose primary research interests center on the ecological mechanisms that drive the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes and how these mechanisms can be used to increase the livelihoods of the farming communities of developing countries. He holds a PhD in geography and ecology from the University of California, Davis, US.

The data is abundantly clear: it's time to transition to cleaner, more sustainable agricultural practices. A new report from IPES-Food demonstrates how vicious cycles of vested interests and entrenched thinking are the barriers to agricultural change.

Here’s a spin on what caught our eye this month. From the TEEBAgFood interim report released at the Global Landscapes Forum in Paris to the Indonesian peat fires to microbes and ecosystem service bundles. Read on!

We’ve been engaging increasingly with the health sector to explore the relationship between biodiversity, environmental health and human well-being. Read on as we highlight some of the articles that have been influential at this intersection.

A working group, led by Bioversity International with funding from WLE, is working to understand how the UN Sustainable Development Goals can be leveraged for conservation and human well-being by identifying links between ecosystem services and achieving SDG goals.

Science on the Pulse: what is the best way to navigate through the mountain of publications that emerged from 2014 to find the gems that should absolutely be on your reading list? For those looking to brush up on their knowledge on ecosystem services and resilience, we're sharing the top ten reads as identified by a polling of the ESR Working Group.

When it comes to payment for ecosystem services (PES), a long list of criticisms can often ensue. How can we put a price on nature? Are we willing to put our ecosystems at the whim of an unpredictable financial market?

We are celebrating the launch of WLE's Ecosystem Services and Resilience Framework with a month long focus on ecosystem services, provided from natural and human-modified ecosystems, starting with the blog posts surrounding the Ecosystem Services Partnership conference.

Today, the International Day for Biological Diversity, is the ideal day to spend the coffee break mulling over the relationship between water, biodiversity, and agriculture in some of the world’s most critical life raft ecosystems